Saldana’s Attacker Faces 8 New Charges on Threatening Letters
The obsessed fan imprisoned for attacking actress Theresa Saldana with a knife in 1982 is scheduled to be arraigned today--the eighth anniversary of the attack--on eight new charges stemming from threatening letters he sent, prosecutors said.
Scottish-born Arthur Richard Jackson, 54, who is due to be paroled next month, already faced eight charges filed last June for sending five threatening letters to Saldana and her rescuer, Jeffrey Fenn, a bottled water delivery man who is now a sheriff’s deputy.
After further investigation of the same letters, prosecutors decided to file eight more allegations.
“I swear on the ashes of my dead mother and on the scars of Theresa Saldana that neither God nor I will rest in peace until the special request in my solemn petition has been granted,” he said in one letter, sent from the Vacaville State Prison.
Jackson was convicted of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon in October, 1982, and later sentenced to 12 years in prison.
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